Corvin Russell

Corvin Russell is an activist, writer, and translator based in Toronto. His current focus is Indigenous solidarity and environmental justice work.

Why I'm voting Liberal for the first time ever (but should vote Green)

Corvin Russell

| June 12, 2014

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We cannot be complacent about the Stasification of our societies

Corvin Russell

| September 17, 2013

Still from "The Lives of Others"

in their own words

Stop Canada's cultural genocide at Barriere Lake

Canada and Quebec are waging a war of attrition on a small band of 500 Algonquin Indians a few hours north of Ottawa. Today, this war has reached a critical juncture: its outcome will be a judgment on whether Canada is able to share the land with First Nations while respecting their right to maintain their cultures and determine their own destinies, or whether Canada can only offer resilient Aboriginal cultures a menu of assimilation, dependency, and cultural death.

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Parliament to vote on Tory motion against free speech

Corvin Russell

| March 1, 2010

This year marks the sixth anniversary of Israeli Apartheid Week. Started as a small event at the University of Toronto, the annual week of educational events has grown to include over 40 cities around the world, and has played a major role in building a global anti-apartheid movement. As a result of its success, some university administrations in Ontario have stepped up repression of student activists who organize IAW.

No more silence: why showing up today is important. Rally for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Corvin Russell

| February 14, 2010

Friends,

Many of you know that for the last 18 years, February 14 has been set aside as a day to remember and honour the thousands of Aboriginal women who have been murdered or gone missing in Canada. According to NWAC 520 Aboriginal women are known to have gone missing or been murdered since 1980.

In Native communities across Canada, people know women who have disappeared - daughters, sisters, mothers, and friends. No one knows what has happened to them. Many other women are known to have been murdered. The deaths and disappearances of these women eat at the hearts of all who love them.

Right wingers line up to offer shopworn advice on Indian policy; Fraser Institute fellow advising Gitxsan Treaty Office

Corvin Russell

| January 4, 2010

I thought it was weird last fall when, out of the blue, the National Post ran an editorial heaping praise on a discussion paper put out by the Gitxsan Treaty Office. My reaction at the time: clearly the right wing knows whose interests this proposal serves.

Toronto Star botches apology to columnist

Corvin Russell

| July 20, 2009

The Toronto Star's Public Editor, Kathy English, still doesn't get it. English, who has come under intense fire this week from right and left in the blogosphere and in letters to the Star, last week rushed to judgment with a poorly researched column in which she attacked Star journalist Antonia Zerbisias.

NDP brings white fest to Halifax

Corvin Russell

| July 14, 2009

The federal NDP continues its quest for irrelevance. 7 out of 7 featured speakers at the convention are white; 6 of them are men. Check out this page. 9 out of 9 headshots are of white people. For that matter 18 out of the 18 people pictured on this page are white. Seriously?

The Obama-crazedness is also weird. Sorry, much as I don't like Obama, his campaign was not made out of tech how-tos. Who is the NDP's Obama?

Egale Canada honours the architect of Mike Harris's Common Sense Revolution

Corvin Russell

| June 5, 2009

Egale Canada, a national organization whose mission is to "advance equality and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-identified people and their families," is presenting its first ever leadership award to Jaime Watt, one of the main architects of Mike Harris's "Common Sense Revolution". Watt is also Egale's benefactor and landlord: his consulting firm, Navigator, donates office space to Egale.

What can explain this decision, other than turpitude or stupidity on Egale's part?

Obama team finds creative ways to prolong the economic crisis

Corvin Russell

| April 8, 2009

The Obama administration is standing by its "cash for trash" Public-Private Investment Plan, the latest attempt to disguise its reincarnation of the Bush administration's tax dollar giveaway to Wall Street. Under this scheme, the US government pays private "investors" to buy rotten assets from banks at highly inflated, artificial prices: the government subsidizes 90% of the purchase price of assets; but if the private buyer pays too much for the assets, the buyer can walk away and the government only gets the actual resale value of the assets. In other words, it's a one-way sure-loss bet in which the taxpayer pays private investors to get rich.

Corvin Russell

Stop Canada's cultural genocide at Barriere Lake

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